THE FOREIGN SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES FIRST LINE OF DEFENSEPDF电子书下载

1 Introduction 1

Notes 9

2 The First Two Hundred Years 11

The Nineteenth-Century Service 16

Early Twentieth-Century Reforms 19

Other Agencies Enter the Scene 22

World War II and Its Aftermath 23

New Agencies Take the Field 26

Notes 30

3 The Structural Framework 31

Evaluation, Promotion, and Selection-Out 40

Assignments 44

Allowances and Benefits 48

Retirement 51

Labor-Management Relations 53

Notes 56

4 The Shape of a Career 57

The Department of State 57

The United States Information Agency 86

The Agency for International Development 89

The Department of Commerce: The Foreign Commercial Service 92

The Department of Agriculture: The Foreign Agricultural Service and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service 93

Notes 96

5 The Foreign Service at Home 97

The Department of State 99

Loyalty and Dissent 102

The Foreign Service at Work 104

The Policy-Making Process: A Case Study 108

Beyond the Regional Bureaus 115

The Other Foreign Affairs Agencies 117

Notes 120

6.The Foreign Service Abroad 121

Structure of an Embassy 122

The Ambassador 127

The Deputy Chief of Mission 138

The Country Team 141

The Political Section 143

The Economic Section 148

The Consular Section 150

The Administrative Section 152

The Foreign Commercial Service 157

The Foreign Agricultural Service 158

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service 159

The United States Information Service 160

The Agency for International Development 162

Support Staffs 165

Constituent Posts 166

The Non-Foreign Service Agencies 167

The Intelligence Community 171

Life Outside the Office 173

Notes 176

7.In Search of a Constituency: Congress,Press, and Public 179

Congress 182

Press 188

Public 191

Notes 196

8.Open Questions 197

The New Foreign Policy Environment 197

Spouses and Families 200

Shifting Attitudes 213

Terrorism and Other Dangers 216

Notes 222

Conclusion--A Look Ahead 225

Notes 229

Appendixes A Foreign Service Personnel 233

B List of Foreign Service Posts 235

C Guide to Foreign Service Recruitment 245

Bibliography 253

Index 257